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omelette

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɒmlɪt//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɒmlət//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɔmlɪt//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɔmlət//

A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.

noun

  1. 1

    A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.

    He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.

    She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.

    She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.

  2. 2

    A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

    This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

Etymology

First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.

verb

  1. 1

    To make into an omelette.

    This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.

    'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'

Forms

plural
omelettes
past tense
omeletted
past participle
omeletted
present participle
omeletting
third person singular
omelettes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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